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  2. Candlestick telephone - Wikipedia

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    Candlestick telephone. A Western Electric desk stand telephone of the 1920s and 30s. The candlestick telephone (or pole telephone) is a style of telephone that was common from the late 1890s to the 1940s. A candlestick telephone is also often referred to as a desk stand, an upright, or a stick phone. Candlestick telephones featured a mouthpiece ...

  3. History of the telephone - Wikipedia

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    Old Receiver schematic, c.1906 A German rotary dial telephone, the W48 Top of cellular telephone tower By 1904, over three million phones were connected by manual switchboard exchanges in the U.S. [32] By 1914, the U.S. was the world leader in telephone density and had more than twice the teledensity of Sweden, New Zealand, Switzerland, and Norway.

  4. Rotary dial - Wikipedia

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    A rotary dial is a component of a telephone or a telephone switchboard that implements a signaling technology in telecommunications known as pulse dialing. It is used when initiating a telephone call to transmit the destination telephone number to a telephone exchange . On the rotary dial, the digits are arranged in a circular layout, with one ...

  5. Trimline telephone - Wikipedia

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    Early foreign made Trimline, December 1986. 90s Trimline phone made by Lucent/Philips and branded AT&T. The Trimline telephone is a series of telephones that was produced by Western Electric, the manufacturing unit of the Bell System. These telephones were first introduced in 1965 and are formally referred to as the No. 220 Hand Telephone Sets.

  6. Telephone exchange names - Wikipedia

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    Kenmore 9392 is a five-pull (1L-4N) small-city telephone number for the Kenmore exchange in Fort Wayne, Indiana. MArket 7032 is a six-digit (2L-4N) telephone number. This format was in use from the 1920s through the 1950s, and was phased out c. 1960. BALdwin 6828 is an urban 3L-4N example, used only in the largest cities before conversion to ...

  7. Jersey Lilly Old Time Photo Parlor - All You Need to Know ...

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    About. The Jersey Lilly Old-Time Photo Parlor is located in the historic Exhibits Building, home of the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame. Let us take you back in time to the days of the Old West with a memorable, one of a kind, old time photo. Here is what we offer: Antique Sepia Tone photos w/Old-time backgrounds Costumes and props Group photo of up ...

  8. Model 500 telephone - Wikipedia

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    The Western Electric model 500 telephone series was the standard domestic desk telephone set issued by the Bell System in North America from 1950 through the 1984 Bell System divestiture. The successor to the model 302 telephone, the model 500's modular construction compared to previous types simplified manufacture and repair and facilitated a ...

  9. Telephone - Wikipedia

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    An old rotary dial telephone AT&T push button telephone made by Western Electric, model 2500 DMG black, 1980. A telephone, colloquially referred to as a phone, is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be easily heard directly.